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Monthly Archives: June 2016

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from September 6, 2012 “Are Blacks and Hispanics too Lazy to be Statisticians” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I am at the Western Users of SAS Software conference this week and just […]

Throwback Thursday: Are Blacks and Hispanics too Lazy to be ...

June 30, 2016 in Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

buildings — When I was a kid, I always wondered what people did in those big office buildings. How did they learn how to do those jobs, whatever they were? How did they get those jobs? What do they wear? I knew what teachers did, since I went to school, and doctors, […]

How We Can Help Your Kids Become Successful Entrepreneurs

June 29, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Ronda Running — A few months ago, we had the super fantastic amazing opportunity to have some special guests in our game design meeting. These included a best-selling author, a programmer who had worked on two of the best-selling games on earth and two people who play more video games than anyone else I […]

Game design – you talk, we listen

June 28, 2016 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Terry being interviewed — In school, I was in probably every clique but the ‘cool kids’. I was in a lot of fights and hung out in “hoods’ woods” with all of the other troublemakers. The woods from Forgotten Trail aren’t far off. I was in all of the advanced classes with the ‘smart […]

Party Like a Rock Star?

June 26, 2016 in AnnMaria / podcast by AnnMaria De Mars

Mom says right — Some of our testers had suggested that we have a more dramatic event when the player got the answer right or wrong. I thought I would replace the existing image with something like this with maybe a farting sound effect. (Kids liked the puking in Spirit Lake that happens if […]

See What I Have to Put Up With

June 25, 2016 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Last week, I was a speaker at the White House’s State of Women Summit. It was – as the name suggests – a massive gathering of 5,000 attendees (mostly women plus a few men) invited to discuss, well, the state of women. Everything from healthcare to equal pay to entrepreneurship to education […]

CEO + Mom, It’s Not Either/Or

June 23, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Uncategorized tagged state of women by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from June 05, 2015 “Needed: Advice on Appreciating Life” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I think I need some advice on appreciating how great my life is. I haven’t been posting for two […]

Throwback Thursday: Needed – Advice on Appreciating Life

June 23, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Advice / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Life / Life Advice / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

We here at 7 Generation Games are never satisfied with just satisfactory. To prove this point I’d like to talk some points about constantly improving. As a veteran web developer here 7 Generation Games, I’m given some leeway into creating content for our website and our games. After being inspired […]

How We Continually Strive To Improve

June 21, 2016 in 7GenGames / Code Talk by Luis Ceballos

cat — When I get discouraged about the pace of ‘traction’ at 7 Generation Games, I remember an interview with one of the founders of Google. He said that it did not bother him in the early years that Google did not have a lot of users because they were working on […]

Cats on the Head & Other Start-up Tales

June 19, 2016 in AnnMaria / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Congratulations for making it through another week! With kids out of school for summer break and families planning trips, we want to give you today’s freebie that comes straight from our soon-to-be-released, AzTech Games. The game of AzTech begins when two students are kidnapped and taken back in time to the Mayan […]

Freebie Friday: Solving Timeline Problems – Videos

June 17, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Aztech / B.C.E. / Freebie Friday / Timeline Videos by Erick Salomon

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from March 18, 2015 “The Luxury of Everyday Problems” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. We were driving to the hospital to get some tests done and complaining about the traffic with Colorado Ave. […]

Throwback Thursday: The Luxury of Everyday Problems

June 16, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Everyday Problems / Life Advice / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

teacher saying "Correct" — It’s been a crazy week here at 7 Generation Games. Maria was first at the Native Innovation Ed Tech Summit debuting our new game, and then at the White House speaking on a panel on women entrepreneurs. As for most of the rest of our crew, we have been busy […]

What CEOs can learn from elementary school teachers

June 15, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars